Sunday, 1 June 2014

Linsey Pollak turns a carrot into a clarinet using an electic drill a carrot and a saxophone mouthpiece, and plays it all in a matter of 5 minutes.

Linsey Pollak is an Australian musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has recorded 31 albums, toured his solo shows extensively in Europe, Nth America and Asia as well as performing at most major festivals around Australia.

Linsey has devised many large Festival pieces such as "BimBamBoo" and "Sound Forest", as well as collaborating on many music and theatre projects around Australia. He established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA, and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. Linsey has also worked as a musical instrument maker for 40 years and has designed a number of new wind instruments as well as specialising in woodwind instruments from Eastern Europe.

Friday, 23 May 2014

There have been plenty of uncomfortable moments in the history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Venus de Milo, anyone?).

There have been plenty of uncomfortable moments in the history of the Oprah Winfrey show (...I never watched it, but I'm sure there were).

But NOTHING compares to this exchange - which took place as the 'Coming Out of Their Shells' tour (filled with awkward singing and dancing and sketches) stopped by to make a guest appearance on Oprah's show.

Saturday, 25 January 2014

A little tinkering from me that shows what you can do with 3D printers today. Most parts of this paper airplane machine gun had printed by fabberhouse.de (the rest of them are to buy via Internet or hardware store). By the way, I use a cordless screwdriver from China for driving.

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Sports anchors Nicole Darin and former Seahawks/Redskins/Patriots cornerback Sean Springs discuss the worst mascots and a picture of the Chicago Cubs mascot with his bat and balls is shown. Compares him to the 'New' Orleans Pelicans mascot. Live and candid reactions

Thursday, 2 January 2014

These clips are from shot Grable, the Atomic Cannon test in 1953 showing the initial burst and shockwave. Identified also are the various vehicles on the desert floor which are very, very tiny compared to the fireball of the blast. There are cars, jeeps, buses and tanks under the blast area. I have put a title over a frozen frame to be able to see the positions of the vehicles. Can anyone find the bird?